Originally Posted By: Clevy
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
The Prius in taxi service where the drivers beat the cars and drive well over 100K a year have no lubrication problems. Their cycles of start and stop are much more frequent than any daily driver would ever experience. They also have few mechanical problems because there is no shifting of gears in the transmission and no reverse gear (you back up on one of the 2 electric motors) and no fan belt on the engine to worry about. Also they are experiencing zero battery problems much to the disappointment of critics of hybrid cars. Upon viewing the inside of a Prius engine with over 500K miles there was no abnormal wear. We were able to look inside the engine because the car was destroyed in an accident. By the way, the battery was not damaged although the car was a total wreck. The running gear was put back together and made into an emergency generator set. It was easy and worked so well that people are looking in junk yards everywhere for a wrecked Prius.
I gotta assume that a wrecked Prius is going to cost far more than an actual generator
$280
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
The Prius in taxi service where the drivers beat the cars and drive well over 100K a year have no lubrication problems. Their cycles of start and stop are much more frequent than any daily driver would ever experience. They also have few mechanical problems because there is no shifting of gears in the transmission and no reverse gear (you back up on one of the 2 electric motors) and no fan belt on the engine to worry about. Also they are experiencing zero battery problems much to the disappointment of critics of hybrid cars. Upon viewing the inside of a Prius engine with over 500K miles there was no abnormal wear. We were able to look inside the engine because the car was destroyed in an accident. By the way, the battery was not damaged although the car was a total wreck. The running gear was put back together and made into an emergency generator set. It was easy and worked so well that people are looking in junk yards everywhere for a wrecked Prius.
I gotta assume that a wrecked Prius is going to cost far more than an actual generator
$280